Swedish turnip

American  

noun

1. rutabaga.

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Etymology

Origin of Swedish turnip

First recorded in 1800–10; so called because introduced into Great Britain from Sweden

Example Sentences

This is, perhaps, the reason that it’s sometimes called a Swedish turnip or simply a swede.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 29, 2019

For mere milk-dairies, it is not quite so valuable, probably, as the Swedish turnip.

From Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure by Jennings, Robert

To the extreme right you might have beheld Vegetable Warren, the staff-surgeon, slightly exaggerated in the semblance of a South-Down wether nibbling at a gigantic Swedish turnip.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 by Various

With respect to the origin of the Swedish turnip, see Darwin, 'Animals and Plants under Domestication,' 2nd edit. vol. i. p.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles

The other explained the law, of which he knew as much as a Swedish turnip, on the subject of treason felony.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.